Archive for October, 2008

From Bloomsbury to Barack

October 27th, 2008

I’ve written my first article for the Ham&High about my trip to the US where I will be observing the presidential elections. It looks like their website hasn’t been updated yet but I’ll scan the article in later today. For now, here’s the text of the article- “I don’t think there will be a woman [...]

Barack Obama

October 22nd, 2008

I’m really excited about my trip to Ohio where I’m going to be volunteering for the Barack Obama campaign. The Ham&High newspaper has asked me to write about my experience and here’s the article introducing my column-

Mid-week Update

October 15th, 2008

It’s been a busy week in the office as I’ve been helping my boss Harry Cohen MP prepare for his ten-minute rule bill. Harry rightly believes that sleepwalking as a defence against rape should be removed from the 2003 Sexual Offences Act. I’m glad to say that his speech went very well and the Bill [...]

Kentish Town By-election

October 14th, 2008

I’ve been campaigning for my friend Awale Olad who is the Labour Party candidate for the Kentish Town by-election on the 30th of October. The by-election was called after it was revealed that the Lib-Dem councillor Philip Thompson had moved to Arizona without telling his constituents! The Camden New Journal, along with other national papers, [...]

Mandelson

October 6th, 2008

Last week was really busy as I was telephone canvassing for Awale Olad in Kentish town, helping out the Labour Party Action Team in Camden Town, preparing for my trip to the states to observe the US elections and standing for London Young Labour’s Women’s Officer role again. And of course I was busy reading [...]